Carriage-wheel



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CARRIAGE WHEEL,

No. 309,705. Patented Dec. 23, 1884.

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\VALTER KITTREDGE FOSTER, OF STONEHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARRIAGE-WHEEL.

EPECIFICA TION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,705, dated December 23, 1884-.

Application filed July 15, 1884.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, \VALTER Krr'rnnnen FOSTER, of Stoneham, in the county of Middlesex, of the Commonwealth of llilassachir setts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in ,CarriageNVheels; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the ac companying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a side view of a wheel provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented. Fig. 2 is a side view; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of a sector of the improved wheel. Fig. 4 is cross-section on line a a", Fig. 2.

In constructing carriage wheels having steamed and bent fellies it has been customary to have the telly-joint midway between two next adjacent spokes, such spokes being tenoned into the felly. In some cases the abutting ends of the telly at the joint have been inserted within a short tube of metal. In other cases a clip or piece of metal extended across the joint and bolted or riveted or otherwise connected or applied to the abutting portions of the felly has been employed. By having thejoint midway between the two next adjacent spokes, the felly parts next to it and between it and the said spokes are very liable while the wheel may be in use to, both with The weak the tire, be bent in toward the hub. parts of the wheel-folly are not only the joint midway between the two spokes, but the mortised portions of the :felly at the spokes.

I11 carrying out my invention I have no fellyjoint midway between two next adjacent spokes; but I have between such spokes a voussoir, or arched piece of the folly, and two joints between it and portions of the fell y pr0- j ecting toward each other from the spokes, such being as shown in the drawings, in which (No model.)

A is the folly, B the hub, C the spokes, and D the tire, of the wheel. The auxiliary or arched piece of telly is shown at E as directly between and abutting against two extremes, a, of the folly, beyond the two next adjacent spokes O, the two parts a being proj ectcd toward each other from the two spokes which are tenoned into the folly.

To hold the arched piece E in connection with the said parts a, I use at each end of the said piece a T-bolt, b, a washer, c, and a nut, (Z. The shank of the bolt goes through the joint and extends into the piece E and the part a at thejoint, the bolt-head clasping the telly at the joint, all as represented. The parts a become short abut-ments for the arched piece E, their joints being in directions radial to the axis of the wheel. The tire, when on the felly, prevents the parts thereof at the joints from spreading apart.

In my improved wheel, there being no fellyjoint midway between the two next adjacent spokes, there can then be little, if any, inward movement of the folly, to exert on it, at the parts of it joined to the spokes, a level age lending to rupture or break such parts asunder. Therefore it will be seen that my improvement prevents the inserting of the fell y midway between the two spokes, and the evil results usually following therefrom.

I claim as niyinvention- A carriagewheel having short portions of its i'elly extending toward each other from and between two next adjacent spokes, and also having between and jointed to and connected with such short portions a separate voussoir or arched-portion of the folly, all being substantially as set forth.

\VALTEB KITIREDGE FOSTER.

\Vitnesses:

1%. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

